Digital Safety Game

DSG is created by Tallinn University, Digital Safety Lab and Network of Estonian Teachers of Informatics and Computer Science (www.eiops.edu.ee) to help schoolteachers teach digital security topics. This card game is in English and targets university, professional higher, vocational and high school ICT students and teachers of informatics.

Security experts feel digital security has three layers - learning, policies and hardware. DSG tackles the first learning layer to raise citizen's awareness of crime prevention. After research it became clear DSG kind of security information bundle cannot be found from internet. For most topics there were dozens of different vague definitions or descriptions. We tried to gather them all, select the most important parts and squeeze them on a card the most simple way possible. 

There was a need for a methodical material, which helps teachers to teach a variety of computer-related topics. DSG tackles learning layer to raise citizen's awareness of on-line crime prevention. Students and teachers will learn about a variety of topics in the field of information security and facts. Game gives students the opportunity to communicate and debate on social engineering, privacy, network, internet, hacking, and malware topics. Discussions and real life examples among students why this knowledge is important are encouraged.

The game meets the substantive part of the national curriculum's' security section for schools.
Secondary objectives are changes in teaching methods, which will help to introduce schools with modern techniques and methods. We also want to make security and technology more interesting and popularize it among students.

The idea of the game is to learn more about digital safety. The goal is to answer as many questions as possible and win after accumulating a required number of cards. The game is designed so the inquirer has to formulate a question and evaluate whether the answer is correct or not. Discussions and real life examples why this knowledge is important are encouraged. Game is designed for people who want to renew or enhance their digital safety knowledge with the help of a fun seductive game.

Digital Safety Game gives students ability to learn about security issues by playing. Meaning learning can be fun!